Python CTF Summons The Crewmate

Description

A dark-mode X/Twitter screenshot shows Lynn (@chordbug) posting, "participating in a python ctf this weekend and our team name is chr(sum(range(ord(min(str(not()))))))" with visible engagement counts below it. Beneath, faa (@0x466161) replies, "Bro what the actual fuck lmao," followed by a blurred zoomed image of the Sinhala character "\u0d9e," widely used online because it resembles an Among Us crewmate. The Python expression abuses `not()` evaluating as `not ()`, then walks through `str`, `min`, `ord`, `range`, `sum`, and `chr` to produce Unicode code point 3486. The joke is a perfect CTF-team-name flex: technically valid, needlessly opaque, and optimized for making everyone else open a REPL.

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Python CodeGolf Obfuscation UnicodeSupport LanguageQuirks SyntaxAbuse Ascii DeveloperInJokes MemeCulture CodingHumor HackerCulture

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The team name is just `chr(3486)` with enough ceremony to make a linter consider a career change.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The team name is just `chr(3486)` with enough ceremony to make a linter consider a career change.
@hlvlad 1y

https://x.com/sundhaug92/status/1834680041562636443?t=prpewDDz30c-4BkLHB01Mg&s=19
@noi01 1y

real
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y
  
  This command is very sus
2. @dsmagikswsa 1y
  
  How?
  
  @AmindaEU 1y
  
  it's an unicode glyph for a character in some language that doesn't use latin alphabet
  
  @callofvoid0 1y
  
  not every unicode is for a language
  
  @AmindaEU 1y
  
  Does emoji count as a language? 🐾
  
  @AmindaEU 1y
  
  https://emoji.duolingo.com
  
  @callofvoid0 1y
  
  human being has used emotes, figures and postures as a way of communication far before invention of language, so... kinda, yes?
  
  @chupasaurus 1y
  
  The only thing that matters - it's a glyph in both meanings.
3. @callofvoid0 1y
  
  but I have a feeling this is for tamil language
@spiderts 1y

amongus
@Jeffeek 1y

very sussy sus
@XmasApple 1y

No way
@azizhakberdiev 1y

pythonus
@mildly_disastrous 1y

chr(3486)